Water Meter Remote Reader Wiring

New spring tension terminal blocks for easier wiring the rcm 100 is a remote primary display with ability to communicate with all types of pulse equipped water gas meter registers.

Water meter remote reader wiring.

The customers and meter readers can access the meter reading without having access to the water and or gas meter itself. Operating temperature is 22 to 176 f 30 to 80 c wiring. If you have water meter located in a place that is difficult to read such as a basement tenant apartment or underground meter pit a wired remote allows easy meter reading without actually being at the meter. There are four wires coloured red yellow green and blue and four terminals in the reader labelled 1 2 3 and 4.

Environmentally sealed to keep unit water proof and to ensure no internal fogging. During some renovation work the wire from my water meter to the remote reader has become disconnected. Maximum dis tance between the meter and remote reader is 2000 ft. One end has factory installed round terminals for screw attachment to register.

There are two major types of remote wired meter reading touch pad based reading and visual remotes. 3 wire cable for automatic meter reading devices touchpad touchread meter reading or remote encoder registers. This works with kemp meek digital remotes but it will work with any 3 wire amr or ami radio remote system. The water meters are unpowered and do not require a power source.

Recommended cable is a 3 conductor 24 gauge stranded wire with shielding. Both use the same encoder output.